Affiliates
MicKenzie “Micki” Fasteland (she/her)
coding / web formatting
Things I Love: Ripping into ableist nonsense, queer videogame ships, rescuing poodles, cocktails with Dorothy, magic wands (real and otherwise).
Favorite Writers: Mariko Tamaki, N.K. Jemisin, Alison Bechdel, Tamora Pierce, Octavia Butler, Madeleine L’Engle, Seishi Yokomizo, Lynda Barry, Audre Lorde
Lauren Chen (she/her)
design
Things I Love: Sriracha sauce, anything Sci-Fi, teaching Pilates and making crafts! I love bringing ideas to life through design.
Interns
Edith Patterson (she/her)
Things I Love: traveling on the West Coast, sweaters, literary nonfiction, photography, pressed flowers, thunderstorms, art museums, udon soup, cats, indie bookstores.
Favorite Writers: Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, Jia Tolentino, Sylvia Plath, Ocean Vuong, Ali Smith, Joy Williams.
Former Editors
Zakiya Cowan (she/her)
Former Interviews Editor (2020-2023)
Things I love: writing about the body, Black womanhood, trees, reconciling with loss, taking up space, confession, erasure, preserving family history, matriarchs, and food. I love questioning, learning, and reclamation.
Favorite writers: Safia Elhillo, Aja Monet, Eve Ewing, Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tiana Clark, Aracelis Girmay, Nicole Sealey, Lucille Clifton, Su Hwang, Jaqueline Woodson, Camonghne Felix.
Claire Meuschke (she/her)
Former Hybrid Editor (2020-2021)
Things I love: reviving the archive, ethnobotany, daily life as it intersects with time travel, dreams.
Favorite writers: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Anne Boyer, Gregory Cajete, CAConrad, Xue Di, Saidiya Hartman, Bhanu Kapil, Layli Long Soldier, Fred Moten, Alice Notley, Arthur Sze
Avni Vyas (she/her)
Former Essays Editor
Things I love: alligators, rage-crochet, social justice doilies, Ramayana, bourbon, distance running, syntax, Floridiana, banyan trees, one-liners, rejoinders, tiny mischief.
Favorite writers: Ai, Anne Carson, Ursula K. LeGuin, Arundhati Roy, Cheryl Strayed, Douglas Coupland, Audre Lorde, Rachel Carson, Leslie Jamison
Maria Clara Melo (she/her)
Former Valentines Editor
Things I love: writing about living in the hyphen between Brazilian and American, the ritual of trauma, and secrets. Enjoys dystopian fantasies that could come true, making doodles, and not translating when she writes in Portuguese. Loves investigating the intricacies of cross sections in identities, and the smell of onions and garlic cooking together.
Favorite writers: Edwidge Danticat, Carmen Maria Machado, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Gloria Anzaldua, Roxane Gay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Haruki Murakami
Trinity Jones (she/her)
Former Hybrid Editor (2020-2021)
Things I love: magic, superpowers, nature, Black and brown women existing, sisterhood, everyday objects/occurrences looked at differently, death, life, love, history retold, retellings
Favorite Writers: Laini Taylor, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Marissa Meyer, Elizabeth Acevedo, bell hooks
Jessica Q. Stark (she/her)
Former Hybrid Editor
Things I love: haunted boudoirs, anti-manifesto manifestoes, final girls, single-panel serial narratives, experimental infographics, femme monsters, radical dictums, poetry comics, comics poetry, sexy ghosts, (in)formal disobedience and/or instructions for survival, plastic palm trees, prison abolitionism, and big cats misbehaving. I love a good shit talking sesh and might make you cry with a can of spam, rice, and some bok choy.
Favorite writers/artists: Taro Gomi, Fiona Staples, Lorna Simpson, Bianca Stone, Phoebe Gloeckner, Sommer Browning, Tula Lotay, Mariko Tamaki, Thi Bui, Eleanor Davis, Lynda Barry, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Julie Doucet, Carrie Mae Weems, Olivia Jaimes
Gaia Rajan (she/her)
Designer of our First Website
Things I love: sad girl indie music, enjambment, aquariums, queer Asian community, augmented reality, the myth of Thessalonike, Natalie Portman movies, climate rage, persona poems, Mitski, passionfruit tea.
Favorite writers: Carmen Maria Machado, Richard Siken, Franny Choi, Megan Fernandes, Ocean Vuong, Chen Chen, Yanyi, Laini Taylor, Danielle Evans, Nicole Sealey
